King cobras are spreading to different parts of India by hitching rides on some of the country’s busiest railway networks, a new study has found. The Western Ghats king cobra (Ophiophagus kaalinga), a ...

King cobras (Ophiophagus hannah) are endemic to the forests and swamps of Asia, with a range that spans from the Indian subcontinent throughout Southeast Asia to southern China. They are green, yellow ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Wednesday marked the Lunar New Year and the beginning of the year of the snake, and the Field Museum of Natural History figured it made for a fitting time to talk about snakes. But ...

King cobra is the only snake species that builds its own nest like birds. This sounds strange yet fascinating to the long-held belief that snakes live mostly underground. In the forests of South India ...

On India’s railways, stowaways are not limited to ticketless passengers. Some arrive without limbs, luggage or much interest in timetables. A paper recently published in Biotropica suggests that king ...